This fall, the Library is saying farewell to several longtime employees:
• Coordinator of Library Instruction Sandra Hussey has been with Lauinger for 33 years. In addition to providing instructional services to faculty and students, she led the effort to create and maintain "Joining the Conversation: Scholarly Research and Academic Integrity" tutorial, which is taken by every first-year and transfer student.
• Bill Olsen, School of Foreign Service and Government Liaison, is retiring after 37 years as a librarian, the last 15 at Georgetown. Bill provided more research consultations than any other Lauinger librarian over the past five years. As a scholar, he edited four books on medical anthropology and conducted research on epilepsy in West Africa.
• Jill Hollingsworth, science liaison and reference librarian for Blommer Science Library, has been with Blommer for the past nine years. She also served as English liaison at Lauinger Library for 14 years, and as a sabbatical project, she developed instructional modules for the Computer Science department.
• Systems Support Specialist Deb Critzer is retiring after nearly 30 years at Lauinger and Blommer Science Library. Deb was responsible for major projects that helped maintain easy access to Library materials for members of the Georgetown community, including managing the Library’s migration to a new library management system that integrated the catalog, book acquisitions, cataloging, and circulation.
• In 39 years, PC Specialist Gene Law has installed, configured, and maintained more than 1,000 Library computers, and recently implemented the social distancing protocols for Library technology that help keep staff and patrons safe during the pandemic.
Each of these staff members, in addition to Peggy Fry, deputy university librarian, retired under Georgetown's Special Voluntary Early Retirement Program. We thank them for their outstanding service to Georgetown and wish them the best in their retirements.